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<span class=large>THE SECOND BOOK OF NEPHI</span>
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CHAPTER 15
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The Lord’s vineyard (Israel) shall become desolate and his people shall be scattered—Woes shall come upon them in their apostate and scattered state—The Lord shall lift an ensign and gather Israel—Compare <a href="isa/5">Isaiah 5</a>.  Between 559 and 545 <span class='small'>B.C.</span>
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 5: 1 (1-30)."><span class='smallcaps'>And</span></a> then will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved, touching his <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Vineyard of the Lord.">vineyard</a>.  My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.
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And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 2: 21.">vine</a>, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
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And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
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What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it?  Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes it brought forth wild grapes.
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And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard—I will <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 80: 12 (8-15).">take</a> away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;
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And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor digged; but there shall come up <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 7: 23 (23-24); Isa. 32: 13.">briers</a> and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 4; Jer. 3: 3.">rain</a> no rain upon it.
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vineyard of the Lord.">vineyard</a> of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Amos 5: 24.">judgment</a>, and behold, <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/15/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Oppression.">oppression</a>; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.
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Wo unto them that join <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Micah 2: 2.">house</a> to house, till there can be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
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In mine ears, said the Lord of Hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, and great and fair cities without inhabitant.
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Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="BD Weights and Measures; Ezek. 45: 11.">bath</a>, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
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Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 23: 30 (29-32).">follow</a> strong drink, that continue until night, and <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Drunkenness; TG Word of Wisdom.">wine</a> inflame them!
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And the harp, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 6: 5 (5-6).">viol</a>, the tabret, and pipe, and wine are in their feasts; but they <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/12b" mark="b" type="C" title="Ps. 28: 5; TG Rebellion.">regard</a> not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
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Therefore, my people are gone into <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 1: 3 (1-3).">captivity</a>, because they have no <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/13b" mark="b" type="C" title="Isa. 1: 3; Hosea 4: 6; TG Knowledge.">knowledge</a>; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
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Therefore, hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
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And the mean man shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 2: 17 (11, 17).">brought</a> down, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 12: 11.">mighty</a> man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/15/15c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Haughtiness.">lofty</a> shall be humbled.
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But the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Judge.">judgment</a>, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
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Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 10: 16.">fat</a> ones shall strangers eat.
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Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>, and sin as it were with a cart rope;
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That say: Let him <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 17: 15.">make</a> speed, <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Haste.">hasten</a> his work, that we may <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/15/19c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sign Seekers.">see</a> it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it.
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Wo unto them that <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 64: 16; D&C 121: 16.">call</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="Moro. 7: 14 (14, 18).">evil</a> good, and good evil, that put <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/15/20c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Jn. 1: 6.">darkness</a> for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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Wo unto the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 3: 7 (5-7); 2 Ne. 28: 15.">wise</a> in their own eyes and <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/21b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Prudence.">prudent</a> in their own sight!
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Wo unto the mighty to drink <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 31: 4 (3-9).">wine</a>, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
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Who justify the wicked for <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Bribery.">reward</a>, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
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Therefore, as the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Obad. 1: 18; 2 Ne. 20: 17; 3 Ne. 20: 16.">fire</a> devoureth the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/24b" mark="b" type="A" title="Joel 2: 5; 1 Ne. 22: 15 (15, 23); 2 Ne. 26: 6 (4, 6); D&C 64: 24 (23-24); D&C 133: 64.">stubble</a>, and the flame consumeth the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/15/24c" mark="c" type="A" title="Luke 3: 17; Mosiah 7: 30 (29-31).">chaff</a>, their <sup>d</sup><a href="2_ne/15/24d" mark="d" type="A" title="Job 18: 16 (16-21).">root</a> shall be rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts, and <sup>e</sup><a href="2_ne/15/24e" mark="e" type="A" title="2 Sam. 12: 9 (7-9).">despised</a> the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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Therefore, is the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 32: 21; D&C 63: 32; Moses 6: 27.">anger</a> of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets.  For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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And he will lift up an <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Ensign.">ensign</a> to the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/15/26b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Nations.">nations</a> from far, and will hiss unto them from the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/15/26c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Ne. 29: 2.">end</a> of the earth; and behold, they shall <sup>d</sup><a href="2_ne/15/26d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Israel, Gathering of.">come</a> with speed swiftly; none shall be weary nor stumble among them.
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None shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken;
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Whose arrows shall be sharp, and all their bows bent, and their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind, their roaring like a lion.
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They shall roar like young <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="3 Ne. 21: 12 (12-13).">lions</a>; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry away safe, and none shall deliver.
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And in that <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/15/30a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Day of the Lord.">day</a> they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; and if they look unto the land, behold, darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
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